Kadin Burnett
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Kadin Burnett is a 23-year-old writer/copywriter and teacher currently based in Vancouver, BC.
On February 7, 2024, Amer will release their debut picture book, Hooray for She, He, Ze, and They! which likens the correct use of one’s pronouns to the aforementioned feelings of euphoria.
On September 10 Gauff won her first-ever Grand Slam tournament after defeating Aryna Sabalenka.
It’s impossible to enjoy Barbie without also being made to grapple with the throes of our real world.
On May 1, Jordan Neely, an unhoused, 30-year-old Black man, was killed by 24-year-old Marine veteran Daniel Penny after Penny placed him in a chokehold.
Women’s college basketball didn’t only breathe comfortably this year; it was triumphant.
The opportunity gap is only widening in Hollywood.
Onscreen Muslim representation has a long way to go.
When it comes to the media’s depictions of abortion, what we most often see may not accurately depict the reality of people’s experiences with abortion.
Palmer’s Emerald has tiptoed her way into the top ranks of horror’s greatest final girls for the very reason that she’s nothing like one.
On April 11, the trial in a defamation lawsuit between actress Amber Heard and actor Johnny Depp began in Virginia.
Despite an undeniable record, she was still subjected to transparent provocation.
The high school drama just ended its second season, which was full of nudity, profanity, drug use, and debauchery.
The Final Girl is the last character alive left to stop the villain once and for all.
The disturbing and pervasive truth is that Black girls haven’t been afforded childhood during the pandemic, but that had also been true well before COVID-19.
Both artists opted to align with abusive men on both albums, making fandom of either artist harder to justify.
On July 28, the greatest gymnast in history, Simone Biles, withdrew from the Tokyo Olympics
All of these cases elicit a similar feeling of Black women being treated cruelly and unfairly based on arbitrary rules.
President Joe Biden signed into law yesterday a bill that made Juneteenth — the anniversary of the day the last enslaved Americans learned of their freedom — a federal holiday.
'The Underground Railroad' meticulously displays one of history’s most shameful and violent eras without lingering in sadism.
The obvious, enduring inequities between men’s and women’s college basketball were spotlighted last month when a 37-second video filmed by Oregon forward Sedona Prince went viral.
On March 8, The Biden administration took an important step toward changing how schools will handle sexual assault, harassment, and misconduct cases.
Since The Bachelor and The Bachelorette started in 2002 and 2003 respectively, only three leads have not been white.
Beneath the film's pastel coloring, neon signage, and pop music remixes lies a grim deconstruction of rape culture, and how those afflicted by it attempt to heal from it.
Marvel Studios, one of the — if not the — most impressive names in the superheroine genre of entertainment, made headlines in recent years for their plans to add Ms. Marvel — a Pakistani-American, Muslim female superhero who first appeared in her own comic in 2014 — to their impressive roster of characters on screen.
While many people are aware of America’s history of suppressing the votes of racial minority communities, it’s a pattern that affects other minorities, too — especially trans voters.
There is no amplification that is too loud for Breonna Taylor’s cause, but if our voices aren’t cohesive, the movement becomes too diluted to continue to march at its deserved pace.
On June 7, Iran passed a new law criminalizing the emotional and/or physical abuse of a child — the first of its kind in the nation.
Of the many astonishing developments to come from COVID-19, the angry assemblies of Americans in many states requesting that the government reopen the country rank high.
Recently, five teenagers in Afghanistan who make up an all-female robotics team developed a cost-effective ventilator that runs using the motor of a Toyota Corolla.
On February 28, The César Awards, which are essentially the French Oscars, awarded the Best Director honor to Roman Polanski — a man who fled the United States after pleading guilty to the statutory rape of a 13-year-old girl in 1977.
The report discovered that scripted crime television shows, which millions of viewers tune into on a regular basis, depict a false narrative about the unchecked heroism of law enforcement.
2019 was a banner year for women in the entertainment industry. But female filmmakers are still unable to break the “celluloid ceiling.”
Waves is rare in its willingness to present a blurred marriage of volatility and sympathy without preaching or suggesting anything to the viewer. The movie itself crashes down on the audience like a wave, putting viewers in a state of constant unrest.
At the crux of the debate over who has the right to say the N-word without consequence is the question of ownership. When Gina Rodriguez, or anybody outside of the black community, stakes a public claim over the word, and the culture it belongs to, they rightfully court pushback from that community.
On October 12, 2019, twenty-eight-year-old Atatiana Jefferson was shot by police officer Aaron Dean in her own home. Jefferson’s murder is yet another case of unwarranted, lethal violence perpetrated by a white police officer against a black civilian.
Gen Z makes light of things like hypothetical WWIII drafts, climate change, and the forthcoming political apocalypse because dark humor is their response to being born into a world seemingly already on fire is to laugh at the flames.
The award is well deserved, given that the influence of Missy Elliott’s work — especially her creative vision for her music videos — transcends generations and is still evident in popular music today.
Many assumed the famously red-headed Ariel would remain as such in the live action version, and Halle Bailey clearly does not fit that image. Shortly after Bailey was cast, #NotMyAriel started trending on Twitter.
The WNBA is ushering in its 23rd season, and, with it, huge changes
Since Sontag’s articulation of camp, however, camp has been elevated to a new cultural meaning and enactment, primarily by the LGBTQ community, and even more specifically by people of color in that community — a reality the Met Gala theme failed to acknowledge.
Nipsey Hussle’s passing not only leaves a crater in hip-hop but also illuminates a far more pervasive dilemma within hip-hop as well: the endurance of misogyny as a cultural norm and the understanding that a rapper’s legacy and artistry is always considered more important than the treatment of women who surrounded him.
At 22 years old, standing at 5 feet, 7 inches and weighing 164 pounds, this year Harris became one of the only women to ever earn a scholarship to play college football.
Nominations are a legitimate indication of who is worthy of not only cultural acknowledgment but a financial investment. This is why it’s crucial to pay attention not only to who is being recognized at the Academy Awards but also to who isn’t.
The media rarely covers the fact that the festival’s owner, Philip Anschutz, has donated to Republican politicians, anti-gay organizations, and organizations classified as hate groups.
The Favourite leans into the intentionality of the female characters’ sexuality and of their savagery, giving each character her own agency over both of these forces and, in doing so, casting their actions as morally ambiguous.ar
Abrams’ reluctance to concede was not only about her determination to win, but also about preserving Georgia’s electoral integrity.
Bucking the trend of male heroism, many slasher films have opted for “the Final Girl”: protagonists who are victims of murderous circumstances — who weren’t looking to fight for their lives but rather had the fight thrust upon them — but who survive nonetheless.
While it’s frustrating that Williams has to find herself navigating distractions like these instead of focusing on her 23 Grand Slam championships, Williams is nothing if not persistent.
The Scarlett Johansson incident was hardly the first time a cisgender actor was criticized for taking a role many believe should have gone to a trans actor. In fact, a pattern of cisgender actors being cast as, and then inevitably critically acclaimed and rewarded for playing, transgender characters has emerged over the past few years.
Neither the #MeToo movement, nor the basic acknowledgment of a woman’s agency, decrees the death of romance. The refusal to let go of traditional courtship, however, illustrates not just Cavill’s, but many straight men’s, inability to accept the possibility, let alone reality, of a shift in the balance of power between men and women and their equation of that shift in balance with the “death” of dating.
Closure is one thing, but concocting an entire series based on the constant reminder — and, in the aforementioned case, physical destruction — of one’s past partner directly places this past relationship, and inherent to that, her past partner, as the cornerstone of Becca’s journey to find love is disempowering to Becca as a multidimensional person.
On May 10, Spotify announced it will essentially act as an omniscient curator of the music of two problematic (if not criminal) artists: R. Kelly and XXXTentacion. Both of the artists’ music will still be available on the service, but Spotify will no longer actively promote their work.
It's important for desginers' clothes to be seen, but it’s just as important for those who wear clothes to feel seen by designers. And currently, many aren’t: specifically, individuals with disabilities. One brand might change that.
Sexual harassment is no laughing matter, but a recent Funny or Die sketch has managed to add some humor (dark though it may be) to the plague of sexual misconduct that spawned the #MeToo movement.
Finally, audiences — many for the first time ever — get to see a complex black superhero supported by a majority black cast, who thrive in positions of royalty and power based on their society’s technological advancement, in an Afrocentric environment.
Issa Rae is not only a talented creator and writer, but is actually shifting the way the industry views creators of color
Men have only been surprised by #MeToo because they haven't been forced to confront the ways in which women’s lives are so frequently tinged with the feeling that they must defend themselves against men’s tendencies to sexualize them.
In the context of a market that has long failed to provide products for countless potential customers of color, Rihanna created products featuring myriad tones that embrace a diverse array of skin types.
While frustrating and dangerous, these constant attacks on women’s bodily autonomy provide all the more reason to support facilities like Planned Parenthood.
The privilege of fully being oneself is harder for students with whom schools take issue — specifically black students, who are often disproportionately affected by dress code sanctions.
Detroit, directed by Kathryn Bigelow, takes place in the midst of the infamous 12th Street riot, which was sparked after the police raided an unlicensed club for African-American veterans in 1967....
“Is it a boy or a girl?” everyone asks immediately upon learning of a pregnancy or birth. It’s a question that dictates the name parents give their baby, determines the color they paint the nursery, and even catalyzes the shade of powder for a viral gender reveal at baby showers. But one Canadian family recently rejected this tradition..
Over its 15 years on the air, The Bachelor franchise has had some of the most aggravatingly attractive, square jawed, toned, and tantalizing contestants a producer could dream of. Every season, a sea of white faces, usually decorated with an occasional pinch of color, descend upon the Bachelor Mansion to drunkenly vie for the immediate and undying attention of one beautifully sculpted white person. But now, for its 34th season (which starts tonight), the franchise has finally stemmed its wave of “caucasity” by casting its first black bachelorette, Rachel Lindsay.